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It is told of a Connecticut field officer, better acquainted with farming than soldiering, that when circumstances placed him in command of his regiment at Hatteras, he wished to oblique his column in marching, and gave the order, "Haw around that mud puddle."
A correspondent writes that the Rebel Gen. Tropier, who abandoned Fernandina on the approach of our troops, has been presented by the Rebel ladies with a bottle of castor oil and a package of salts.
Gen. Pope has publicly offered a reward of five cents for the return of Capt. Samuel Harrison of the 95th regiment of New York volunteers, who lately left his company and came to New York.
The Press of this city has a rumor that Gen. Sigel shot Gen. McDowell through the head on the battle field of Warrenton. The news comes from Baltimore.
The will of the late General Lyon, United States Army, gives all his property, worth thirty thousand dollars, to the government of the United States.
It is said that on one Sunday night after Stonewall Jackson took possession of Frederick, in Maryland, he attended the German Methodist Church. The minister saw who were among his auditors, but made bold, nevertheless, to pray for the President of the United States and the success of the federal army. Stonewall took no offense because he was sound asleep and heard not a word of what was said.
Gen. Howard's right arm was shattered by a ball during the recent battles, and was amputated below the elbow. While being borne on a litter, he met Gen. Kearney, who lost his left arm in Mexico. "I want to make a bargain with you, General," said Howard, "that hereafter we buy our gloves together".
An exchange says that the rebel General Magruder drinks so much whiskey that if he were buried, corn and rye would sprout from the ground for a quarter of a mile in all directions from the grave.
McClellan's Creed - He that fights and recedes for a strategic reason, may live to fight for another season.
The Louisville Journal charges Bishop Polk, of Louisiana, with disgracing himself by both swearing and getting drunk since he has taken to the profession of arms.
A lieutenant in the 32nd Illinois regiment, falling in with a charming rebel syren at Nashville, Tenn., became so infatuated that he some weeks ago deserted, and with the young lady escaped beyond the federal lines. The young lady was wealthy, and by the use of her money the pair managed to run the blockade at Charleston, and arrived in Havana last Christmas day, where they were married, and are now living, it is said, in happiness and elegance.
Col. Van Valkenburg, of the 20th Indiana, has been dismissed for sending $40 to a faro dealer in Columbus, Ohio, with a letter stating that it was the last he should receive of this "ni**er administration", as they would steal the balance or run away with it. The letter was brought to Gov. Morton, who sent it to Washington. He had also been guilty of drawing servants rations, and then subsisting on them at company quarters.
John W. Howland, of Pittsfield, Mass., recently appointed Commissary of Subsistence in the army, has absconded with $16,500 of Government money, and a large amount of securities which were placed in his hands while acting as Division Quartermaster.
Counterfeit Colonels, Majors and other pretended officers have been arrested in Washington by the score. During the whole winter the hotels have been infested with these epauletted vagabonds. Large numbers have been sent to the guardhouse, stripped of their feathers and cut adrift.
The government is unfortunate in some of the appointments for spiritual aid to the army. The statement is made that a chaplain belonging to one of the volunteer regiments was arrested in the street Wednesday, while in a beastly state of intoxication. He was kept in the guard house all night, and released the next morning, so that he could perform divine service in his regiment. The morning services of that regiment must have been refreshing to those in the secret of the chaplain's bacchanalian reveries.
It is gravely suggested by a correspondent that Brig. Gen. Frank Spinola will find it necessary to abate some portion of his mammoth shirt collar on going into battle. Otherwise, with such a prominent display of white linen he will certainly be mistaken for a flag of truce.
When Kirby Smith was in Lexington he visited a Ladies Fair, where he was greeted with applause, to which he gave a curt reply that he was tired of cheers, he wanted recruits.
We see it stated that after Vicksburg surrendered one of the rebel officers, General Lee of South Carolina - in order to display his spirit, opened a vein in his arm and wrote his parole in blood.
Intelligence has just been received here that the rebel General Holmes died recently of delirium tremors.
Somebody said the other day that a stick thrown at a dog in front of a Washington hotel hit five Brigadier Generals!
Albert Pike, late a Brigadier General in the rebel army, and who resigned on account of obesity, is at present in retirement in Texas, and it is furthermore stated that he is now classed as being rather friendly to the old Union.
When Gen. Hooker had but a few men and little whiskey he was a good fighting man; but double increases was too much for him. In short had he used fewer horns he would have been a better Hooker.
Some of the military officers have four aides: promenade, serenade, lemonade and gasconade, and are still of little aid to the country.
A carriage just constructed at Bridgeport, Ct. for General Sickles, is built in the campaigning style of Napolean and cost $2,000.
A Charleston, S.C. paper claims that if Gen. Bragg were near the gates of Heaven and invited in, at the critical moment he would fall back.
A letter from the Army of the Potomac says that a few days since a private employed as a blacksmith at headquarters got drunk on his ration of whiskey and took occasion while in a pugilistic mood to approach Gen. Meade with a point blank challenge to single combat, asserverating in rigorous terms and in an expressive manner, his perfect confidence in his ability to vanquish the commander-in-chief or any other man, and insisting on the General to peel and defend himself. The General ordered the hydropathic treatment, and it proved effectual and soothing to the smithy.
When Gen. Morgan was on his recent visit to Richmond, he went into the "Libby" and there he met Gen. Neal Dow. Being introduced to the Yankee, the rebel General said, smilingly, "General Dow, I am very glad to see you here; or rather I should say, since you are here, I am happy to see you looking so well." Dow's natural astuteness and Yankee ingenuity came to his aid, and he quickly replied, without apparent embarrassment, "General Morgan, I congratulate you on your escape; I cannot say that I am glad that you did escape, but since you did, I am pleased to see you here." A good match these two.
An officer in a Maine regiment recently got a furlough on the ground that he would lose fifty thousand dollars if he did not go home. It seems that he was engaged to a young lady worth that sum, and the attractions of another fellow were proving disastrous to his "investment." The fair one had written to him that if he didn't come home right away she would marry the other man.
Capt. Gotlieb C. Rose, for aiding and promoting a duel, and Capt. Griebe for accepting one, both of the 6th Missouri Cavalry, have been cashiered.
At Somerville, Alabama last Thursday, Capt. Dobbs of an Indiana Regiment had been treating a black cruelly when the negro crept behind him with an axe and almost cut him off, killing him instantly.
Among the sayings attributed to Admiral Farragut is one that "you can no more make a sailor out of a landlubber by dressing him up in sea toggery and putting a commission in his pocket, than you could make a shoemaker of him by filling him with cherry cobbler!"
Gen. Bristow, commanding at Lynchburg, has been brought to Washington under arrest, charged with stealing $60,000 of Government funds. He was caught with the money on his person.
Davenport, Iowa was a good deal agitated over the attempt of a man to cut his throat and pull out the tongue of his wife at a hotel on Saturday. They were strangers and claimed to be from Iowa City. He had been a lieutenant in the 3rd Cavalry.
A person who saw John C. Breckinridge a few weeks ago says that his appearance is that of a person in the habit of consuming a vast quantity of bad whiskey. He was seedy and bloated, and his condition, so far as the observer could judge, was that of a person decidedly "played out."
They tell a good story of a Hoosier officer who, on receiving a note froma lady "requesting the pleasure of his company" at a party to be given at her house, on the evening designated, took his volunteers and marched them to the young lady's residence. When it was explained to him that it was himself alone who had been invited he said: "The letter said company and I thought the lady wanted to see all us boys."
The Rebel General Hindman was recently shot and killed in Texas by some of his own troops while going with a tobacco train to Mexico. Hindman was the dandy-looking chap who initiated the practice of poisoning wells and shooting Union prisoners. He was a Congressman before the war.
A western paper says that an Arkansas cavalry colonel mounts his men by the following:
First order - prepare fer ter git onto yer creeter!
Second order - git!
It is said that General Butler recently ordered a soldier to be whipped for going to the rear when he ordered him front. The poor soldier was innocent, for he went the way Ben was looking when he ordered him front.
http://www.valstar.net/~jcraig/officer.htm
A correspondent writes that the Rebel Gen. Tropier, who abandoned Fernandina on the approach of our troops, has been presented by the Rebel ladies with a bottle of castor oil and a package of salts.
Gen. Pope has publicly offered a reward of five cents for the return of Capt. Samuel Harrison of the 95th regiment of New York volunteers, who lately left his company and came to New York.
The Press of this city has a rumor that Gen. Sigel shot Gen. McDowell through the head on the battle field of Warrenton. The news comes from Baltimore.
The will of the late General Lyon, United States Army, gives all his property, worth thirty thousand dollars, to the government of the United States.
It is said that on one Sunday night after Stonewall Jackson took possession of Frederick, in Maryland, he attended the German Methodist Church. The minister saw who were among his auditors, but made bold, nevertheless, to pray for the President of the United States and the success of the federal army. Stonewall took no offense because he was sound asleep and heard not a word of what was said.
Gen. Howard's right arm was shattered by a ball during the recent battles, and was amputated below the elbow. While being borne on a litter, he met Gen. Kearney, who lost his left arm in Mexico. "I want to make a bargain with you, General," said Howard, "that hereafter we buy our gloves together".
An exchange says that the rebel General Magruder drinks so much whiskey that if he were buried, corn and rye would sprout from the ground for a quarter of a mile in all directions from the grave.
McClellan's Creed - He that fights and recedes for a strategic reason, may live to fight for another season.
The Louisville Journal charges Bishop Polk, of Louisiana, with disgracing himself by both swearing and getting drunk since he has taken to the profession of arms.
A lieutenant in the 32nd Illinois regiment, falling in with a charming rebel syren at Nashville, Tenn., became so infatuated that he some weeks ago deserted, and with the young lady escaped beyond the federal lines. The young lady was wealthy, and by the use of her money the pair managed to run the blockade at Charleston, and arrived in Havana last Christmas day, where they were married, and are now living, it is said, in happiness and elegance.
Col. Van Valkenburg, of the 20th Indiana, has been dismissed for sending $40 to a faro dealer in Columbus, Ohio, with a letter stating that it was the last he should receive of this "ni**er administration", as they would steal the balance or run away with it. The letter was brought to Gov. Morton, who sent it to Washington. He had also been guilty of drawing servants rations, and then subsisting on them at company quarters.
John W. Howland, of Pittsfield, Mass., recently appointed Commissary of Subsistence in the army, has absconded with $16,500 of Government money, and a large amount of securities which were placed in his hands while acting as Division Quartermaster.
Counterfeit Colonels, Majors and other pretended officers have been arrested in Washington by the score. During the whole winter the hotels have been infested with these epauletted vagabonds. Large numbers have been sent to the guardhouse, stripped of their feathers and cut adrift.
The government is unfortunate in some of the appointments for spiritual aid to the army. The statement is made that a chaplain belonging to one of the volunteer regiments was arrested in the street Wednesday, while in a beastly state of intoxication. He was kept in the guard house all night, and released the next morning, so that he could perform divine service in his regiment. The morning services of that regiment must have been refreshing to those in the secret of the chaplain's bacchanalian reveries.
It is gravely suggested by a correspondent that Brig. Gen. Frank Spinola will find it necessary to abate some portion of his mammoth shirt collar on going into battle. Otherwise, with such a prominent display of white linen he will certainly be mistaken for a flag of truce.
When Kirby Smith was in Lexington he visited a Ladies Fair, where he was greeted with applause, to which he gave a curt reply that he was tired of cheers, he wanted recruits.
We see it stated that after Vicksburg surrendered one of the rebel officers, General Lee of South Carolina - in order to display his spirit, opened a vein in his arm and wrote his parole in blood.
Intelligence has just been received here that the rebel General Holmes died recently of delirium tremors.
Somebody said the other day that a stick thrown at a dog in front of a Washington hotel hit five Brigadier Generals!
Albert Pike, late a Brigadier General in the rebel army, and who resigned on account of obesity, is at present in retirement in Texas, and it is furthermore stated that he is now classed as being rather friendly to the old Union.
When Gen. Hooker had but a few men and little whiskey he was a good fighting man; but double increases was too much for him. In short had he used fewer horns he would have been a better Hooker.
Some of the military officers have four aides: promenade, serenade, lemonade and gasconade, and are still of little aid to the country.
A carriage just constructed at Bridgeport, Ct. for General Sickles, is built in the campaigning style of Napolean and cost $2,000.
A Charleston, S.C. paper claims that if Gen. Bragg were near the gates of Heaven and invited in, at the critical moment he would fall back.
A letter from the Army of the Potomac says that a few days since a private employed as a blacksmith at headquarters got drunk on his ration of whiskey and took occasion while in a pugilistic mood to approach Gen. Meade with a point blank challenge to single combat, asserverating in rigorous terms and in an expressive manner, his perfect confidence in his ability to vanquish the commander-in-chief or any other man, and insisting on the General to peel and defend himself. The General ordered the hydropathic treatment, and it proved effectual and soothing to the smithy.
When Gen. Morgan was on his recent visit to Richmond, he went into the "Libby" and there he met Gen. Neal Dow. Being introduced to the Yankee, the rebel General said, smilingly, "General Dow, I am very glad to see you here; or rather I should say, since you are here, I am happy to see you looking so well." Dow's natural astuteness and Yankee ingenuity came to his aid, and he quickly replied, without apparent embarrassment, "General Morgan, I congratulate you on your escape; I cannot say that I am glad that you did escape, but since you did, I am pleased to see you here." A good match these two.
An officer in a Maine regiment recently got a furlough on the ground that he would lose fifty thousand dollars if he did not go home. It seems that he was engaged to a young lady worth that sum, and the attractions of another fellow were proving disastrous to his "investment." The fair one had written to him that if he didn't come home right away she would marry the other man.
Capt. Gotlieb C. Rose, for aiding and promoting a duel, and Capt. Griebe for accepting one, both of the 6th Missouri Cavalry, have been cashiered.
At Somerville, Alabama last Thursday, Capt. Dobbs of an Indiana Regiment had been treating a black cruelly when the negro crept behind him with an axe and almost cut him off, killing him instantly.
Among the sayings attributed to Admiral Farragut is one that "you can no more make a sailor out of a landlubber by dressing him up in sea toggery and putting a commission in his pocket, than you could make a shoemaker of him by filling him with cherry cobbler!"
Gen. Bristow, commanding at Lynchburg, has been brought to Washington under arrest, charged with stealing $60,000 of Government funds. He was caught with the money on his person.
Davenport, Iowa was a good deal agitated over the attempt of a man to cut his throat and pull out the tongue of his wife at a hotel on Saturday. They were strangers and claimed to be from Iowa City. He had been a lieutenant in the 3rd Cavalry.
A person who saw John C. Breckinridge a few weeks ago says that his appearance is that of a person in the habit of consuming a vast quantity of bad whiskey. He was seedy and bloated, and his condition, so far as the observer could judge, was that of a person decidedly "played out."
They tell a good story of a Hoosier officer who, on receiving a note froma lady "requesting the pleasure of his company" at a party to be given at her house, on the evening designated, took his volunteers and marched them to the young lady's residence. When it was explained to him that it was himself alone who had been invited he said: "The letter said company and I thought the lady wanted to see all us boys."
The Rebel General Hindman was recently shot and killed in Texas by some of his own troops while going with a tobacco train to Mexico. Hindman was the dandy-looking chap who initiated the practice of poisoning wells and shooting Union prisoners. He was a Congressman before the war.
A western paper says that an Arkansas cavalry colonel mounts his men by the following:
First order - prepare fer ter git onto yer creeter!
Second order - git!
It is said that General Butler recently ordered a soldier to be whipped for going to the rear when he ordered him front. The poor soldier was innocent, for he went the way Ben was looking when he ordered him front.
http://www.valstar.net/~jcraig/officer.htm
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